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This wedge drill is practice turning the corner. So this is more of a concept of how to practice.

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So if you're making relatively solid contact, your next goal is to work on distance control

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and controlling your landing spot and turning that basic technique into a really good skill.

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So with a lot of my golfers, I have a phrase of practice turning the corner.

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There's what I mean about that. With your standard finesse wedge shot,

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if you're hitting really close, kind of bump and run style, then you're going to take

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practice wings where the club is going to stop before the wrist do a whole lot of hinging.

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There might be just a slight amount in that takeaway, but it's going to stop basically before you get

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to about hip height. So it ends up looking something like that. Well, what ends up happening is

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golfers get really good at controlling their landing spot on these shorter shots.

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But then when you have to go a little bit further, instead of making a bigger swing,

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what they do is they try and speed it up. And yes, I mean, it's all in contact there, but

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overly accelerating is going to tend to lead towards distance control problems, especially under pressure.

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So what I prefer is you keep the same tempo and you work on lengthening the swing.

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What that means is you're going to work on what I call turning the corner or starting to get some

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hinge. Because most golfers are comfortable hitting these little pit shots where you're down here.

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And then they're comfortable hitting, say, 50, 60 yards shots where you're up here.

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But in between is that corner. So you want to get comfortable making back swings where you're

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somewhere in that corner and still being able to hit the ball solidly so you can control your

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distance control. So when practice, that would look, we'll go one,

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before and then we'll do one in the corner. So that went, good five yards further.

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And then we'll do one where we go past the corner. And by working on that range of short of the

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corner in the corner, pass the corner. That'll make you more comfortable changing direction

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with the cast pattern from different length backswings. And that's really going to give you a leg

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up when it comes to dialing in your distance control around the greens. So you've got short of the corner

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and then you've got in the corner.

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You can see that goes just a touch higher and a little further and then you've got past the corner.

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Again, going a little bit higher and a little bit further. So that'll help you with your

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distance control with your finesse wedges.